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Label says “Chastity Covers.” Can you guess how these were worn? @Ayala Museum Gold Collection

Label says “Chastity Covers.” Can you guess how these were worn? @Ayala Museum Gold Collection



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A Walking Tour of Rizal's Manila.With a copy of the Noli and an 1872 map of Manila, Pedro Ortiz Armengol, historian who served ...

A Walking Tour of Rizal's Manila.
With a copy of the Noli and an 1872 map of Manila, Pedro Ortiz Armengol, historian who served as Spanish Ambassador to the Philippines, gave me a walking tour of Rizal's Manila that changed my life.
On the map Ibarra starts from Kapitan Tiago's house on Analogue street (now Luna), he takes a stroll on Sacristy (now Ongpin) takes a cab and returns to the Fonda de Lala on Calle Barraca here marked with the lower star.
My Inquirer column today is on that ...

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True: GOLD TARA OF AGUSAN.False: Tallano Gold. Since preHispanic Philippine gold has been in the news recently, we might a...

True: GOLD TARA OF AGUSAN.
False: Tallano Gold.
Since preHispanic Philippine gold has been in the news recently, we might as well discuss the renaming of what we know as the "Golden Tara of Agusan" into the "GOLD Tara of Agusan." This image of a Hindu=Biddhist deity discovered in Esperanza, Agusan in 1917 is made of gold and weighs 1.8 kilos. It has been dated to the 9-10thC.
We know what this looks like from the front (Left) so I am supplying an image of the back (Right) taken on a v...

ALFONSO T. ONGPIN is one of the people I wish I had met because of his great Rizaliana collection: books, photographs, art, meda...

ALFONSO T. ONGPIN is one of the people I wish I had met because of his great Rizaliana collection: books, photographs, art, medals, even relics like: the slippers embroidered by Leonor Rivera for Rizal (on the wall behind his head) , remains of the coat Rizal wore on the day he was shot, etc. This photo from a Sunday Times Magazine feature by Carmen Guerrero Nakpil shows Ongpin in his later years. In postcard collecting circles I have seen prewar photos of him and his collection some of which ar...

Finally met Mighty Magulang! Fellow worker in online Philippine History.

Finally met Mighty Magulang! Fellow worker in online Philippine History.



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"Salakot de asta y plata" [salakot of horn and silver] is the description Rizal wrote in his donation to the Berlin Ethnological...

"Salakot de asta y plata" [salakot of horn and silver] is the description Rizal wrote in his donation to the Berlin Ethnological Museum in 1888. Then he added, in German, "Es gehorte mir" [This is mine].
When I held the salakot in my hands, I was sorely tempted to try it on but didn't want to scandalize the German museum curators who provided access to the Rizal collection that is the subject of my Inquirer column today.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/165309/r...

Thanks to Goe...

Swaying to Rizal’s IG [IndioGenius] @National Museum of Anthropology this morning with National Artist Kidlat Tahimik.

Swaying to Rizal’s IG [IndioGenius] @National Museum of Anthropology this morning with National Artist Kidlat Tahimik.



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My Inquirer column today is on primary source material on the Philippines that I worked on recently at the University of Michiga...

My Inquirer column today is on primary source material on the Philippines that I worked on recently at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Reading some of the accounts made my blood pressure rise because of unfair descriptions of the Philippines and the Filipinos made a century ago that would be grossly politically incorrect today. History teaches us to generate light not heat and the skillful historian can tease truth even from a biased source. We can't change the past so instead of...

Mark your calendars. I will be in Davao August 18-20.August 18 I will be signing books at the Philippine Book Festival.August ...

Mark your calendars. I will be in Davao August 18-20.
August 18 I will be signing books at the Philippine Book Festival.
August 19 I will be in conversation with National Artist Resil Mojares.
Looking forward to meeting readers in Davao!



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